Dixie Pearls: 40 Best Apps

from About.com…..

Definition: Apps is an abbreviation for application. An app is a piece of software. It can run on the Internet, on your computer, or on your phone or other electronic device.

from Small Business Trends…..

In January 2011, the American Dialect Society named “app” the word of the year for 2010.  

“app” (noun, an abbreviated form of application, a software program for a computer or phone operating system)

from the book……

“Most people couldn’t be less interested in data. It can seem like such dry, boring stuff  ***  Don’t be fooled. The truth is that data embodies a priceless collection of experience from which to learn. Every medical procedure, credit application, Facebook post, movie recommendations, fraudulent act, spammy e-mail and purchase of any kind â€" each positive or negative outcome, each successful or failed sales call, each incident, event or transaction â€" is encoded as data and warehoused. This glut will grow by an estimated 2.5 quintillion bytes per day….”

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Anyhoo…focus…....back to my 40 favorite apps! :)

In addition to showing the icon for each app, I've included a brief description from iTunes. The icons are ones you will find if you search the app name.

Most of these apps are free and any upgrades to premiums under $3.

1. Evernote

New York Times ‘Top 10 Must-Have App’, Winner: TechCrunch Crunchies, Mashable Awards and the Webbys. 

Key Features:
• Sync all of your notes across the computers and devices you use
• Create and edit text notes, to-dos and task lists 
• Save, sync and share files 
• Record voice and audio notes
• Search for text inside images
• Organize notes by notebooks and tags
• Email notes and save tweets to your Evernote account
• Connect Evernote to other apps and products you use
• Share notes with friends and colleagues via Facebook and Twitter
• Works with Evernote Business: Capture, browse, search, and share Business Notes and Business Notebooks from your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
◦ Premium feature: take notebooks offline to access them anytime 
â—¦ Premium feature: allow others to edit your notebooks
â—¦ Premium feature: add a PIN lock to your Evernote app

Here are some ways to use Evernote for your personal and professional life:
• Research smarter: snap photos of whiteboards and books
• Take meeting and class notes, draft agendas and research notes
• Plan a trip: keep track of travel plans, plane tickets and passports
• Organize and save recipes; search by ingredients later
• Create a grocery list or task list and check things off as you go
• View web pages saved in Evernote on your desktop
• Capture ideas and inspiration on the go
• Access files and notes you create on your phone from your desktop
• Keep track of products and prices for comparison shopping purposes
• Keep finances in order: save receipts, bills and contracts
• Reduce paper clutter by taking snapshots of restaurant menus, business cards and labels
• Use Evernote as part of your GTD system to help you stay organized
• To get the most out of your Evernote experience, download it on all of the computers and phones that you use.

Evernote is available for: Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Web

Evernote is free to download and use. Evernote Premium adds the great features above and is available through an auto-renewing subscription.

2. The File Converter     I use this ALL the time!

The File Converter will convert to and from nearly any file format!

3. Dropbox     This app is like carrying around a filing cabinet with all your documents, photos, everything in it!!!

4.  Groupon

5.  Living Social

6.  Adobe Photoshop Express

7.  Amazon   Need I explain shopping made too easy? :) I know someone special who, when in college, used to do his grocery shopping this way! i.e. cases of soups :)

8.  Audubon Birds  I love this app!!!!

The award-winning Audubon Birds field guide with 820 species, gallery view for easy search, Find Birds powered by eBird, and NatureShare - a new community where birders can observe, identify, and share their observations and photos.

Key Features:

•Identify 820 species with in-depth descriptions including information on appearance, habitat, behavior, and more

•Over 3,200 images from the world-renown VIREO, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.

•Eight hours of the most exceptional, highest quality bird sounds.

•Robust seasonal and migratory range maps.

•Browse species in a gallery view and filter by shape, region and color, aiding quick identification.

•Find Birds with eBird - the ability to locate birds seen recently around you, drawing on the continuously updated database from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and eBird.

•Create a Personal Nature Account â€" post, keep lists, and share sightings with friends and followers to NatureShare and Facebook or via email with an easy and user-friendly interface.

9.  Blogger

* View list of your saved and published posts
* Switch account/blog if you have more than one
* Embed an image from the gallery, or, by taking a picture directly from the app
* Add labels to your posts
* Add location information

With the Blogger app for iOS, you can quickly and easily publish posts to your blog wherever you are.

10.  Cuptakes

11.  Dictionary/Thesaurus

Features:
* English Dictionary and Thesaurus - over 2,000,000 definitions, synonyms & antonyms
* Offline access â€" no Internet connection needed for most content
* Daily content, including Word of the Day & The Hot Word 
* Audio pronunciation 
* Example sentences 
* Word origin & history
* Voice search (five free searches included) 
* Fastest search speed available, saving valuable time 
* Medical Dictionary with over 35,000 medical words & definitions
* Science Dictionary with over 23,000 science definitions & illustrations
* Translator for over 52 languages, perfect for ESL and reliable translations into English
* Modern, up-to-date, Dictionary.com definitions & content, including over 2,000 new entries, including mankini, quantitative easing, prepone, and more. 
* Customizable font sizes for better readability
* Favorite words 
* Search history
* Spelling suggestions
* Popular & local trending searches

12.  Draw Something  This game is hilarious!!! Be sure to play with a friend!

 13.  Emoji  There are so many versions of Emoji….check 'em out!

* Add Emoji art flavor to your Notes 
* Submit App Store reviews with cute art and pictures 
* Insert smiles in any other text app including Facebook or Twitter. 
* Copy to text, email, clip board or add to favorites 
* Picture text art has fun filled categories with 1000’s of Cool Pics to choose from 
* Endless possibilities symbols, vehicles, sports, people, music, smileys, animals, frames, emoticons and many more!
* Tons of entertaining, crazy, adorable, witty, humorous and lovable animated Emoticons. 
* Express your-self with exciting Emoji art!

14.  Fandango    

• Buy tickets without leaving the app for 21,000+ screens â€" & counting â€" more than on any other app! Including all AMC Theatres locations! 
• Go straight to the ticket-taker to have your device scanned with "Mobile Ticket" (Participating theaters only; look for the “Mobile Ticket” icon) 
• With Reserved Seating, pick your seat directly from the app for select theaters! 
• Create or sync your Fandango account to securely store your credit card or use Fandango gift certificates as a payment option
• Save your theater reward card numbers, apply to applicable orders & earn rewards points! (Participating theaters only)
• Visa Signature account holders - save your card for faster ticket purchasing & access to special offers with TIXPRESS™! (iPhone only) 

15.  Find My Friends      This is a fabulous app!  My son and PDIL use this to track me during half marathons! Great for tracking your kids :) or family while on vacation…..tons of uses.

If you prefer, you can also choose to share your location with a group of friends for a limited time. 

Use Find My Friends to keep track of your traveling companions when you’re on vacation. Or to see if the kids are home from school. Or to meet up with friends for dinner. 

If you’re running iOS 6, you can also set up location-based alerts â€" to notify you when your kids leave school or a family member arrives home safely â€" or have Find My Friends notify others about your location.


 16.  Fitness Pal   I can't brag about this app enough!!! Amazing!

■ PC Magazine Editor's Choice Selection 
â–  Wired Magazine's Editor's Pick for Lifestyle Apps

Featured in Consumer Reports, the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Family Circle, Marie Claire, NBC, CNET, Shape, the Today Show and more.

 17.  Flashlight

18.  Guitar Tuner

19. Hobby Lobby, JoAnn, practically any retailer

20. Holy Bible

General Features include...

- 23 downloadable Bible translations
- Online ESV Bible
- Study tools (in-app purchase)
- NET Notes (in-app purchase)
- Parallel Bibles
- Autoscrolled reading
- Verse highlighting
- Bookmarking by chapter
- Notes organized by chapter
- Fast Searching
- Facebook/Twitter integration
- Multiple daily reading plans
- iCloud Syncing
- iCloud Backup
- Backup/restore
- Highly customizable reading interface
- Much more!

21. Instagram

Customize your photos and videos with one of several gorgeous and custom built filter effects. Transform everyday moments into works of art you'll want to share with friends and family.

Share your photos and video in a simple photo stream with friends to see - and follow your friends' photos with the click of a single button. Every day you open up Instagram, you'll see new photos from your closest friends, and creative people from around the world.

22. iTunes  Need I even write how playlists can change your life? Ha!

23. Kakooma

24. Mirror Zoom

25. Passbook

26.  Physics for You…..or any other magazine you can imagine….I like this one because I instantly discover how much I don't know!!!

27.  Picstitch

28. QR Reader

Now scans QR codes, barcodes, printed URLs and even creates PDF files with our NEW "Scan to PDF" feature.






29.  RunKeeper

30.  Shazam

Once you’ve tagged something, you can:
â—‹ Buy from iTunes (and find others by the same artist)
â—‹ Watch the videos on YouTube
â—‹ Share tags on Shazam Friends
â—‹ Use LyricPlay to sing along to streamed lyrics
○ Check out the artist’s bio and discography

You can also:
○ Preview and save your favorite tags 
â—‹ Share tags on Twitter, Facebook & G+
○ Explore what’s popular around the world with Shazam’s Interactive Maps
â—‹ Tag without coverage, Shazam will match when you have a connection

31.  Skyscanner

Get cheap flights fast with Skyscanner - the world’s best flight search app. Join over 20 million people already using our highly-rated apps. Compare millions of flights and 1000 airlines in seconds. Skyscanner: It's fast, it's flexible, it's free... it’s essential.

Need to find cheap flights on the go? Save money, save time, with Skyscanner. With our comprehensive coverage, you can search millions of flights from 1000 airlines around the world â€" both low-cost and scheduled - to find the perfect flights at the cheapest price. Then buy tickets directly from the airline or via a travel agent â€" all in a few taps.

Features:
- Everywhere search - want to get away, but don’t know where? Let us inspire you.
- filter results by price, airline, and take-off and landing times
- chart view: see prices across a week or a month 
- spin the globe to find destinations from your departure location - see how much you could save if you fly to or from a nearby airport
- tab view: easily compare your searches
- available in more than 29 languages and over 70 currencies

32.  Sky View

* Over 5 million downloads of this award winning app! * 

33.  Sleep Pillow

Its the most effective & highest quality sleep app, with over 3,200,00 happy customers. 

34.  Spotify   I upgraded to premium and now I never have to buy from iTunes!!! Thanks, TW2!

With the Spotify app, you can choose to listen for free, or subscribe to Spotify Premium.

Free radio: US only

US users can listen to radio for free. Discover and save music on the go! If your station plays a song you really like, save it with a single tap. Unlimited songs and stations - listen forever!

Try Spotify Premium for free

If you haven’t tried Premium before, you can try it for 48-hours, completely free. Just download the app and log in using your Facebook account*. 
After your trial, you can still listen to your own music, or subscribe to...

Spotify Premium

Premium is the top-of-the-range Spotify experience. Now you can sync all your favourite playlists to your phone and listen offline. Or go online and stream anything you like from the Spotify library. It’s access all areas with Premium.

Spotify Premium features 

• Instant access to millions of songs 

• Stream online 

• Listen offline â€" no mobile connection needed 

• Share music with your friends 

• Star your favourite tracks 

• Wirelessly sync your own music to your iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad 

• Create and sync playlists 

• Send the music you’re enjoying direct to Last.fm & Facebook

35.  StyleBook

Stylebook has over 90 features to help you get the most out of your closet!

Import your actual clothes, create magazine-style outfits, plan what to wear and track your style inspirations with this totally customizable app! 

Stylebook is an expert wardrobe organization and closet management tool created by a fashion industry insider, who got her start as an intern in the Vogue fashion closet and is an alum of Lucky magazine.

Available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

36.  TV Guide  Thanks, TW1! This is a time-saver and you can use it with Xfinity to set a dvd recording from anywhere using your phone.

Also featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, FoxNews.com, Reuters, CNET, Fast Company, TechCrunch, and more.

Users love it too:
•“at the top of the best new app list” â€" Didi1360
•It’s “the TV app I was waiting for since before apps were a thing.” - Robert Reed
•“Love the Watchlist & New Tonight features. This app beats other TV apps by far.” â€" Betty960
•“keeps all of my shows organized” â€" Zach Crandell

TV Guide’s new official app for the iPhone®, IPad® and iPod touch ® is your one-stop, 24/7 TV companion and our best listings guide ever. It makes TV simple again â€" anywhere, anytime. Your feedback was instrumental in the creation of many cool new features and we’re excited for you to see them. Please keep your feedback coming â€" what you love, what you don’t and what you want to see next. 

Highlights:
• Watchlist - your super-personalized TV Guide: Organize your favorite shows, sports teams, movies, and actors and find where you can watch them â€" on TV, on demand, streaming and DVD.
• Video: Link to watch TV and movies instantly on ABC, ABC Family, CW, Hulu Plus, HBO Go, MAX Go, Crackle and iTunes. Watch now, anywhere, anytime.
• New Tonight: What's new in prime time with three handy filters:
1. All new shows
2. Trending â€" a social hot list based on what TV Guide users are watching
3. Watchlist â€" only your favorite shows
• Listings: Detailed info about every airing with the ability to:
1.Set up alerts and never miss a live airing
2.Easily personalize your Watchlist
3.Filter by HD-only and favorite channels
4.Check-in and share what you're watching with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and more
• Exclusive content: The best in breaking news, features, videos and photos, curated by TV Guide's editors
• News Watchlist filter: Get news customized just for you
• One account: TVGuide.com users can enjoy the convenience of one linked account forTVGuide.com and TV Guide for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Set up individual accounts for every member of your family.
•We've optimized our app for iOS 5 and above. Users with iOS 4.x can continue using TV Guide Mobile 2.2.1 and below.

37.  Urbanspoon

FEATURES

- Use GPS to find a restaurant near you
- Filter by neighborhood, cuisine, or price
- Search and browse local restaurants
- See a list of all nearby eateries
- Make reservations
- Build and review your dining history
- Compare restaurant picks with your friends
- Ratings and reviews from newspapers, bloggers, and fellow eaters
Urbanspoon covers the United States, Canada, Australia, the UK, and Ireland.

38.  Words With Friends  Warning!!! Can be addictive!! Ha!

Experience for yourself why more than 20 million people are addicted to the word building, triple score seeking, chat bubble sending goodness!

39.  Virtual Lighter  I may or may not have gotten this to use at an upcoming JT concert!!!

40.  Etsy

Discover over 17 million unique items from 800,000 sellers around the world.
Explore what kindred spirits are favoriting on Etsy.
Shop whenever inspiration hits.
Manage your shop with ease.

              Happy Apping!

                      Dixie Pearls

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